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   Message 116,818 of 117,728   
   Andy Burnelli to Xeno   
   Re: Empiricism trumps Arlen's idiocy (wa   
   14 May 22 14:30:15   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: spam@nospam.com   
      
   Xeno wrote:   
      
   >> I have only about a half dozen old rotors in my garage in a heap.   
   >> They're useful for weights, but I was hoping to find a use for them.   
   >   
   > Recycle them - scrap iron.   
      
   Hi Xeno,   
      
   I assess you as the most knowledgeable here (certainly you have more   
   experience than I do); however I will point out you dodged both issues.   
      
   1. You dodged the issue that brake rotors can't possibly warp   
      simply because the 2300 degrees needed would make the rest   
      of the components disintegrate (e.g., brake fluid boils at   
      less than 1/4 of that temperature - and you know this).   
      
   2. You dodged the issue that you fail a brake rotor on one   
      condition and one condition only - which is if it no longer   
      meets the spec.   
      
   On the specific spec of gouge depth and width, I also noticed you dodged   
   that, which tells me you've never looked at a spec sheet in your life.   
      
   Don't feel badly about that.   
   Almost nobody does.   
      
   Everyone _says_ they do.   
   But they lie.   
      
   Like you did.   
   And that's OK.   
      
   I'm not _expecting_ anyone here to know what I know about brakes.   
   Not even you, even as I defer to your mass of experience over mine.   
      
   I just tell it like it is.   
   Most people bullshit.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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